League of Legends S3

I was just wondering if any of you had League of Legends season 3 working because I've tried using it with PoN, but it crashes and gives me errors before I can get the launcher open. Most of the guides seem outdated online so if you have it working could you please share how. Thanks!

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I have gotten it to work on CrunchBang a few days ago. Just go on PoL, click on the search thing and check the "Testing". Find League of Legends and install. REMEMBER TO NOT RUN THE GAME RIGHT AFTER THE INSTALLER IS DONE.

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I've tried to play LoL numerous of time. I've tried:1. Virtual machines; free VM software is not really supporting 3D with Windows,(I was thinking about buying WMware - anyone tried to run LoL with this?)2. Wine; a pain in the hmm and never made it work,3. PlayOnLinux; it was working till S3, as you said, but fps ratio is terrible (I'm waiting for Intel drivers announced update),4. ACE Client; it's always outdated and is not working longer than a couple of days before another path... the creator doesn't want to make it open source,5. Was checking Riot annoucements about Linux client but they are always like "we will think about it as we care about Linux community (silent laugh)"...

Generally, the best option is to have only-for-LoL-Windows installed which is e.g. impossible for me as I have UEFI and only Windows 7 bought.Or switch to HoN (which is also impossible for me as I have whole team of real friends playing LoL).

I will be monitoring this thread in hope of someone who figured out any real solution...

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I have it working on a x86_64 instal............In a i686 chroot.

-First Part, the chroot- (Skip if you have a native i646 installation)So, for some weird reason, after champ selection and just before loading... well... It will just not load! This only happens on x86_64. (If you don't get to at least champ select, you are doing something wrong, but we will get to that)

So, we make a chroot! The quickest way to do so is to install the AUR package arch32-light:

yaourt -S arch32-light

After installing, you will have to follow some steps. For some reason the script pacman32 included in this package was not working. If you stumble upon the same problem, just type the whole thing:

Where $ARCH32ROOT is the directory that you designated for your chroot and $@ is the comands passed to pacman, like -Syu (this is copied straight from pacman32 an it is what it is meant to simplify for you)

Proceed instaling wine from repos and drivers for your card: (this next piece of code is just an example and may be different for you)

Be aware that is you have a native i646 install, you dont need the "schroot -p --" bit.

-Fourth Part, YOU LIED! IT CRASHED IN-GAME!-

This is caused by wine misshandling textures with mipmaps, so we will use a little piece of software to subtitude those texture with other without the mipmaps. Note that we will stick with the repo wine.For this you will need LoL-linux-tools. You can find it in https://github.com/A-Metaphysical-Drama/LoL-Linux-ToolsClick on the "Zip" button to download it. Then, apply the texture patch, be aware that it takes a while. I wont explain this too much in-depth... Im tired... Ill edit the post if you have problems with this step.

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I don't know how but it took me whole night and another evening to set it up even if your description was really straight-forward... well, it's Arch, right? It worked as a charm, though! Thank you very much! I believe the topic can be marked as solved but it was not created by me so let's wait if it will work for the OP as well. ;-)

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Yeah, it took me a while too

btw, something important, even though you don't need to update wine until some LoL update breaks something, you need to have the same version of video drivers. So, if you have updated your system, and that included your video card drivers, you have to update the drivers for the chroot as well.

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Vipermaseg wrote:

Yeah, it took me a while too

btw, something important, even though you don't need to update wine until some LoL update breaks something, you need to have the same version of video drivers. So, if you have updated your system, and that included your video card drivers, you have to update the drivers for the chroot as well.

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Thaodan wrote:

Its a bit off topic, but why I should use an 32bit chroot to run this game?

League of Legends is 32-bit software. 64-bit Wine can emulate 32-bit environment but it's not perfect as e.g. LoL is not running on it. I don't know why though. There were like four Wine patches since this topic was created so it can be possible now - who knows? It's always possible to try it first before making chroot environment, just remember about WINEARCH=win32 prefix.

Even without that, Wine comes with a lot of packages you need to install only to run LoL. Also, it needs specyfic configuration. Also, any update of the system (like GnuTLS package mentioned before) or Wine itself (it's discouraged to update Wine if everything's fine) can broke the working solution - so it's better to keep it seperated, just to keep everything clean and ordered and your main system - fully updated without worrying about some single game. Arch doesn't take that much disk space away anyway.

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However, when i start a game, the loading window [game window, loading screen for the game, you know what i mean i hope] does not come.

All i get is a little riot icon on the top-left of my screen [which, if i remember correctly, is the icon that always loads before the game runs, so everyone should see this before the game window appears]

I use a tiling window manager, so i think that might be whats causing the issue. However i have run LOL on ubuntu running xmonad with more or less the same config...

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Alright, that was a easy fix. Restarted my comp and i can load into the game.

However, of course. this leads to new issues.

The screen is mostly black except for some of the HUD. Even on the HUD icons like spells and items are black or grey. However i can move my character, i just can't see him. Sound also works. Just download alsa-lib in chroot

I have applied the texture patch so i think it has something to do with my hardward acceleration. Im using an integrated intel card, but i have run LOL on it before on windows, it was fine.

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To make it clear to others:1. The creator of this instruction had set *.exe files to run automatically via Wine, that's why there is no "wine" command.2. You need to download the game under 64-bit Wine and then run it via schroot to 32-bit Wine; that's why he typed to follow the instructions exactly. I just copied the files from my friend's Windows to not have to install 64-bit Wine at all and keep my system clean. You can also delete 64-bit Wine after you installed the game.3. Good you brought up the Intel-related problem, I happened to have libtxc_dxtn package so didn't notice that... I believe you don't need libva-intel-driver though.

Also, important when you play ranked games: when you turn off the LoL client and then turn it on again, it will lost connection with the server at some point and kick you out of before-game client (you can ignore the error and wait the game to start if you are already in selecting champions window but you won't be able to type or choose your champion so if you didn't picked it jet - it will be done by random). The simplest way to kill every related process is to restart bofore running LoL again.

Edit: I've also noticed that you will have no sound in-game if you e.g. YouTube video opened in your browser (even paused). Some other software may cause it too, it's "can't lock alsa" error even as I'm using PulseAudio and have it installed both on my main system and schrooted system... if someone have the solution - that would be nice as I like to listen to music while playing. ;-)

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You guys are free to take my little tutorial (it is public domain) and making a wiki page, but keep in mind that it should start working again with just the multilibs at some point...

Also, fawkes5, would you mind telling us your model of Intel graphics? I allways liked their drivers, but their overall gaming performance allways puts me off... But if there is one that's enough to power LoL, I might think about ditching the old ATI/Nvidia.

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I'm running an intel HD 3000. The performance...not great. But i dont care. I run the game at lowest possible settings and i get 30fps, and once every couple games it freezes for 5 seconds [i think that has something to do with my graphics card but i'm not sure]. It should be noted that riot has done a great job making the game look nice on lowest settings.

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Ever since the new ptch 3.5, when a game ends, i click victory[defeat] and it crashes. That is, the game doesnt close and reopen the launcher. So i have to kill the whole process and restart lol. The game still plays fine. Anyone have/fixed this issue?